Lynn Farleigh
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Lynn Farleigh | |
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Born | Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK | 3 May 1942
Nationality | British |
Education | Redland High School for Girls |
Alma mater | Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | since 1962 (stage) since 1964 (screen) |
Spouse(s) | Michael Jayston (1965–70) (divorced) David Yip (?–?) (divorced) John Woodvine (?–present) |
Children | 2 Joe Turner and Matthew Turner (with Keith Turner) grandchildren=6 |
Parent(s) | Joseph and Marjorie Farleigh |
Lynn Farleigh (born 3 May 1942) is an English actress of stage and screen.
Early life
Farleigh was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, on 3 May 1942 to Joseph Sydney Farleigh and his wife Marjorie Norah (née Clark). She attended the Redland High School for Girls in Bristol, and trained for the stage at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Marriages
- Michael Jayston (1965–1970) (divorced)
- David Yip (? – ?) (divorced)
- John Woodvine (? – present)
Career
She made her first professional appearance in May 1962 in a production of Under Milk Wood at the Salisbury Playhouse, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in October 1966, playing Castiza in The Revenger's Tragedy at Stratford upon Avon. She made her New York City debut with the RSC in April 1967 at the Music Box Theatre, playing Ruth in a production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming.
Her first London performance came in January 1968 as Helena in the RSC revival of All's Well That Ends Well. In the same Aldwych Theatre season she also played Amanda in The Relapse, August 1968, and Portia in Julius Caesar, November 1968.
In July 1969 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs she appeared in the Peter Tegel double-bill as the Biology Mistress in Blim at School and Anna in Poet of the Anemones; and in the following year played Simone in The Friends, written and directed by Arnold Wesker (Round House, March 1970); and Beatrice Justine in Exiles by James Joyce, directed by Harold Pinter (Mermaid Theatre, November 1970).
Subsequent theatre performances include:
Television and film
Lynn Farleigh is perhaps best known for playing Helen Wycliffe in Wycliffe, Krupskaya opposite Patrick Stewart's Lenin in the historical BBC drama Fall of Eagles, and the glamorous Vivien Ashton (codename Solange) in the second series of the LWT secret agent series Wish Me Luck broadcast in 1989.
Some of her other screen appearances since 1964 include: The Rivals, Eyeless in Gaza, Bill Brand, Steptoe and Son, Murder Most English, Z-Cars in which she played Ann Fazakerley, the 1978 drama series Out, the 1978 film Watership Down and Bad Girls.
She portrayed Mrs Bennet's sister, Mrs Phillips, in the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice.
References
- Who's Who in the Theatre 17th edition, Gale (1981) ISBN 0-8103-0235-7
- Theatre Record and its annual Indexes